 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pagine
...Instauration, this prospectus is most respectfully submitted to public consideration. " Men/ says Lord Bacon, " have entered into a desire of " learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natu" ral curiosity, and inquisitive appetite : sometimes " to entertain their minds with variety and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pagine
...abridger ; and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornamen t and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | 1829 - 592 pagine
...writings afford, of the purity of his purposes. But this will be best understood from his own language. ' But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking...upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometunes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 pagine
...error of all the rest,' says Lord Bacon, ' is the mistaking, or misplacing, of the last or furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes, to entertain their minds, with variety and delight ; sometimes, for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes, who, to a... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pagine
...error of all the rest,' says lord Bacon, ' is the mis. taking, or misplacing, of the last or furthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes, to entertain their minds, with variety and delight ; sometimes, for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes, to enable... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pagine
...wishes to explain. To illustrate this, take (vol. ii. p. 51) the following passage: " But the grest»t error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing...inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pagine
...abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge : for men have entred into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pagine
...advancement of learning : but the greatest error of all the rest, he says, is the mistaking the true end of knowledge ; ' for men have entered into a desire...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 pagine
...one of the greatest characters that ever shed a lustre over science are in the remembrance of all ? " Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for * MUton. ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 312 pagine
...one of the greatest characters that ever shed a lustre over science are in the remembrance of all ? " Men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge,...inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for * Milton. ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to... | |
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But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to... 
